"These are real actors!" he joked. "So adding that to us, the ante has been upped in terms of quality."

Jeong also insisted that Community will be "just as good as before" when it returns to NBC next month.

"You're going to see different relationships," he said. "We have what I honestly consider the best writing on sitcoms right now. It's nothing from me, I'm just so glad I can hang with [the writers] and read their words."